The Witches’ Circle — Where This Connects
Five hundred years ago, a girl from Nijmegen called Mariken spent seven years with the devil and came back. Our next edition goes to the same edge: the Witches’ Edition, with a DJ who is herself a witch.
It turns out a lot of what witches did in their circles has since been measured. Drumming at trance tempo has been studied with EEG and brain scanners. Dancing in sync raised pain thresholds and bonded strangers in an Oxford experiment. A fire-walking ritual in Spain showed the hearts of loved ones beating along with the walkers. And a wise woman’s herbal recipe became a heart medicine that’s still prescribed.
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The new Science of the Witches’ Circle course has eight short lessons, each with its own archival film: the drum and the trance, the circle, the fire, why rituals work, the herb woman, what the moon really does, and the cold winters of the witch hunt. Honest about the evidence, and each with something to try on the dance floor.